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Recent Examples of leeway
The list of attendees until Tuesday had not included Huang, whose company makes the chips at the heart of the AI boom and has been pushing for greater leeway in a market he’s identified as a $50 billion opportunity.
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Bloomberg, Mercury News, 13 May 2026
Social events tend to allow a tiny bit of leeway, even though the host then has to listen to tedious descriptions of the traffic.
—Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 12 May 2026
The supervisors voted to put the measure on the ballot as a general tax, which gives them more leeway with how the money is spent and requires only a simple majority to pass.
—Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
The referee gave both star a lot of leeway as the two stars even spilled over into the crowd.
—Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026
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Bloomberg, Mercury News, 13 May 2026
Social events tend to allow a tiny bit of leeway, even though the host then has to listen to tedious descriptions of the traffic.
—Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 12 May 2026
The supervisors voted to put the measure on the ballot as a general tax, which gives them more leeway with how the money is spent and requires only a simple majority to pass.
—Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
The referee gave both star a lot of leeway as the two stars even spilled over into the crowd.
—Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leeway
Noun
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Harry wore a blue shirt with a kaleidoscopic necktie and black slacks, accessorized at first with a red leather jacket.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
17 May 2026
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And those problems are magnified in the slack middle section of this 160-minute film, as the hunters make discoveries of their own in the forest, unnecessary subplots and aliens multiply, and there are some halfhearted attempts at giving them a thin backstory.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
17 May 2026
Noun
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The historic event produced dazzling auroras visible far beyond their usual high latitude range, with skywatchers reporting northern lights deep into mid-latitudes such as southern Florida and Mexico.—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
11 May 2026
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The collaboration aims to give music artists more latitude when their work is used in feature films or when storylines are based on them.—
Cerys Davies,
Los Angeles Times,
8 May 2026
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“Leeway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leeway. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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